The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 16, 1967 Page: 2 of 15
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EDITORIAL
Shake the Faith, Baby
DO YOU REMEMBER?.
. The Adam Clayton Powells and the
Bobby Bakers and the Thomas Dodds and
their actions have a tendency to shake
the faith of the people of ^the United
States.
Which is exactly what the Communists
like. Nothing goes more according to
plan than things that shake the faith of
the American people. Divide and conquer
is the oldest strategy known to marrkmd.
This is not to insinuate that the
Powells- and~The T5aker?r~arrct ttre Dodds
aM.Comniunists. It is merely to say that
the things they do play right into the
hands of our enemies by creating confus-*
ion in the minds of our people.
Nor are they the only ones Many well-
meaning citizens without a trace of Com-
munistic leaning, are unknowingly aiding
’'those who would destroy us. They are
doing it simply by helping make the
American people think they are unsure
of their leadership-.------- -----
So it is good when Congressslcps down
hard on people who err. It is good when
The firm handling of any bad situation
helps build our country, helps give us
unitv and strength.
What is the old saymg about getting-
the bad apples out of a barrel before they
spoil the wfib-le-lot? — ,
EDITORIALS
FEATURES
THE ROCKDALE REPORTER
70, 20 and 40 Years Ago
--FROM THE FILES OF THE REPORTER-
4—ROCKDALE.’ (Tex.) HEPORTER
March 16, 1967
They re 55 Years Old and Proud
—A TIRED FARMER IN A SILLY WORLD—
WA
The ladies are 55 today, and proud of
ii: / ;
Not often will a woman readily^tidrnit-
to being more than half a century old,
12 is indeed a Happy Birthday.
•When Juliette Gordon Low gave, birth
to Scouting in the United States with
her original band of 12 girls, she advised
them to seek the highest ideals of charac-
ter. conduct, patriotism and service.
She challenged them to find fulfill-
ment in the arts, the home, the world
outside and to darC.To dp the RnprobaVle
and dream the impossible.
Today more than three million girls,
-ages^seviOLthrough seventeen, participate
in the birthday ~oTthe Girl'Scouts-of the
U. -Sr-A> Times change but the ,value and
have endured ! | (|I I
Like any mothery Mrs. Low would be
amazed to sec her girls today. Ali of us
who have seen the family grow are just
plain-proud.
Happy Birthday, Girl Scouts, Long
may yoiuglow!— ___________ . - ~
: Yegua
Philosopher
J. A.
TEH YEARS AGO
Ten yeafp ago Rockdale want
getting reaily to clean howk.-,
with March 25 30 designated as
Spring Gleaning Week.
Ten years ugn fly ash from
Alcoa's Rockdale Works was
being used as a part leal fe-‘
placement for cement in con-
crete being poured at Atrua's
L j)
Tin years ago* the sa/oi ]
censuis--allowed ... 13115.. .idiSlble.
for attendance at the Rockdale
Schools in 1957-5B.
Ford agency at Port 'Neches.
came -to Rockdale a.v a - aslant
manager of Gaither Motor Co
Twenty years ago Caycec
Moore of Hearne wan guest
>-|x-aki-r at the Rockdale Lk»ns
Club luncheon. •
Sheriff I«. L. Rt ay lock arrested
Chester Delaney of Dedver
Colo. W. L, Paterson was dr-
rested later in Wharton and a
third man was being sought.
Forty years ago Reporter
editor John E. Cooke, who hail
Twenty years ago Wnittlesey b##n in a Temple hospital ior
House, New York, announced- weeks and trad undrgone
publication of a new George a mastoid operation, wrote a
btaEion EirryiBtx.k, “Cities of t.o|u;nn from his hospital bed.
He reported ho expedited U> te*
turn home soon bat that it
America,” for March 16.
Ten years ago Mbs BnTie
Jean Williams, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. L. D. Williams of Mi-
lano, was announced as The
Alcoa scholarship winner.
FORTY YEArfs AGO
Forty years ago a deep oil
test was in. progress one mile
north of the Rockdale business
district, just outside the city
limits. It was the J. B. R.
Smith No. 3.
would'be several weeks before
he would be allowed to return
to his work.
G&C Mernarn w poster Col-
legiate Dictionaries $5 75 and
$6.75. Other dictionaries 35
cents, $1.25. SX.75, $12.50 and
vealed there were HO sets of - was burgled and afc. has ’em air.
brothers -working
Rockdale Works.
at Aieoa's
MR. RANCHER AND FARMER;
_ Forty years ago the Baggett
Ten years ago a survey re- stort. and Confectonery up to th? big new International
... . . , . irnolrui t Im ro urorn MG notg Dr “ ... . • «
Dear editar: the ground It would destroy
Accofdim; to an article I America's agricultural Image
read in a eopy of a newspaper _
JTen^ears a^an^torialJn no YOU MISH THE PROMTS .THAT ACID SOILS
hole lit my hack screen door - , n.ir nresent image'’” The Reporter cattef ?«■=«*= CTP*n ^—-Rnnrtm AnrlhlC taken the ririt ffMt “f
sm-c. I know the screen ought What and wTnt ,h™Ttn ganirirtion of a United Fund in STEAL? . . AflUW tunva uro
to be fixed, but first things 1 •fked- and went ahead to Th Salvatlon Am,y
ll,pl [u. 1 ,hl> ba(’k *:,ep r,U mher Hatton ^on^'' earth' knows had> just completed a campaign*
to be- fixed, because that loose ^i(“rmlng is mechaniz $3500 and the Red Crus.
ed, we do everything mechant- ^d Postponed its drive to
rocketed 84 per cent in the last six years.
louse's private postmaster, who
handles 100 million pieces of mail a year,
makes $24,500. The postmaster of Chicago,
responsible for 66 times as much Tnail
makes $550 a year less.
Shorthand reporters who record debate
____ _______get $20,800 a year. The men who call the
-1__' '___- roll and record it - make $19,200. The
THF POf KHA1 F RFPORTFP" fiijfoest^paid marrm- the ITou.ir. other
me KUUVUALC KcrUKI El\ th*n the $80,000-a-year congressman, is
the head doorkeeper. He hauls down
$28,500*per annum.
Salaries in the House last year totaled
$46.5 million, not quite twice the Senate’s
$25.8 million. The latter total included
$15,880 for the Senate chaplain, who
reads a brief prayer to open each session.
In all, there are 494 jobs on Capitol Hill
that pay $20,000 a year or more. Many
of these are on legislative committees,
where staffers can make up to $25,890.
Meanwhile the 100 senators can avail
themselves of haircuts at public expense.
The House employs 10 barbess at $6,000
each, but each member pays a dtfllar for
a haircut, with the public putting up the
other half.
The haircut subsidy fits well into the
over-all picture. While the lawmakers
are being trimmed, the*>ublic is getting
oed—The Dallas Molming Nqws.
. Members of Congress who pledge to
trim the war on poverty might look first
to the private war being waged on Capitol
Hill. ' J
Payroll costs in the House have sky-
W H. COOKE A SON. Publisher*
Subscription Rotes: Bv moll In Milam ond odiolning.
rountlw 1 veor M.iO.»An> where else In T*-xa*. 1 yeor
$4.00 Outside Teso*. $4 (10 yeor. By corrlor boy home
delivery in Rockdotr only, 1 yeor- $5.00.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character. standing
X>r reputotlon of ony person, firm or corporation, whlqh
may appear In the column* of The Reporter will be
gladly corrected upon being brought to the attention of
the publisher - .
W. H. Cooke, Manager; ej, W (Bill) Cooke, Editor;
Henry Tyler. Advertising Manager; James O. (Sum l
Summers, Mechanical Foreman: Peggy Cooke and Gracye
Cooke. Woman * Page Editors: Helen Seelke and Dorris
Henry, Book Seeping and Classified Ad Department: Bob
Penter and Edward Bounds. Typesetter*. Wendell Dyer
and Roland Lawson, Printers. -
Entered as second class matter July 10. 1002, at the
post office at Rockdale. Texas, under the Act of March
8, 1887. Published Every Thursday.
h,,.,rrtv what caused me to American farming is mechaniz- ‘OI,
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hammer and the reason I ho** digger and figging by Twenty years agoTShwiwr
didn't find my hammer was ^nd Wha, do you think ^
because ri-ere wasn't any use would do to our position of invitation to speak tiere at the
uurld lendershiu?" -- Anierican Legions annual
rm , ut < d iiailsanyw ay wuch ”You~a^W-1t- Bfttr HTffhdny pnrr^U^gwAl’au
_____- Shivers and Atty. Celi7-pn^
„P.,, Jnswc, to a In- of thing . ^ GmiS IS OwdlbUIQ ***
whether it's Viet-Nam or a hole’ There’s too much decep- be gdests.
in. my back- screen door; so, to .Iron—and dishonesty in the
get on with vhis sentence, ac- world already.’* ‘
cording to this article in this l Hot tired of arguing and
newspaper whicb »6u - might moved uut of ear range. There
Tvtrenty yeaps ago the city of
Rockdale received a new street
_____ maintainor for use ©nunpaved"
say 'had^been^farefnkrscreeh-t arekJ8S»e_.things airoe people ^b^T.."‘S'
ed. the United States needs to will never’ understand --1*he ment purchased by the city
pay more attention to its image wor>d »• more complicated than since August ltfJJ.
throughout the world. fjou think.
“The image we create in the
minds of the peoples of the
rest of the world is vitally im-
portant to our success in main-
taining world leadership,” the
3itide went on.
I had not" paid much atten-
tion To this rhWUer berorc and
personally ha\-e nevrer" been
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Mhmtor
Modesto, Calif.
clipped.
very much interested in lead- Reporter:
tne the v/orid, not in view ,ot . | ^,aH aw®y Christmas and
where it seems to be gomg •*l 'Alien I returned home I had
• the moment, but after givauu1 so much mail I’m still trying
i. some thought I can see some tp up rvading my papers:
advantage in maintaining the As ! was readitvg The Re-
prupci Image aliroad. porter Doc. Z2 I read the article
For example, just this morn- “Lady Are You Rich.” Ii
ing I was asked to dig some touched me so, as a family
holes and put in' a few posts rnon-d -three doors front me.
where the garden fence has
fallen over but 1 declined on
L. C. Mehaffey purchased a
half intense in the* Rockdale
Dry Goods Go. and came to
Roekdaje 'to assume .active
management of the sitore. The
firm Was originally composed
of J. H. <Brit> Hensley and E.
Rrr Sublett. The latter sold his
interest to Mehaffey.
Twenty years ago Bob
Murphy, former employee oi a
acid soils and puts profit back. You can enjoy these
profits by booking Bandas Aglime now for immediate
quality service. Bandas Agllme is often an ASG ap-
proved cost-sharing program. __
Call Bandas Agllme collect at PR8-7511, Temple o*
contact one of these NOW:
In Rockdalo—LEON NOACK—HI 6-3652
In Cameron—MACK'S OIL GOc~OX 7-4642 ^
In Gause—G. R. VARNER—LI 6-3589
In Milano—Rl
■
j
Gene ' Whi'e
DO YOU KNOW..
thafTK? Chrnrs—Errate Bulkier
(>lan Increase^ to $5,400 at aav *1.
for rach $1,000 purchssed now, q,t
no inoreate In premium?
imorican
Imicablo
UfF INSURANCE COMPARE
r xecuTivt orriers. waco.t* x**
PHONE HI 6-$2t2
2111 Vogel St. Rockdale,Texa* or hi $-»9$$
FURNITURE! FURNITURt!
FURNITURE!
We are now offering for sale at Bargain Prices some of the Best
Furniture ever offered in the Rockdale area, _
This Furniture was purchased at Auction from the Fakes Com-
pany, one of the oldest and best known furniture stores in Ft.
Worth, Texas. >
U’
CHAIRS »u
DINING TABLES
COCKTAIL TABLES
NIGHT STANDS
DESKS and many °ther |tems- all at
* BARGAIN PRICES FOR THIS TYPE OF FURNITURE—
ALS01500 SQ YARDS OF EXCELLENT QUALITY CARPET
DRESSERS
SOFAS
BEDS
HUTCHES
Coffield Lumber Co.
They had three darling chil-
dren. Their father told' them
he wasn't coming home any
more. . ^
The little girl, 10, told me,
so I fixed a box and took them
Friday night before Christmas.
I lang the doorbell. Three
beautiful children came to the
door dressed in their nities.
Oh, how it did touch me?
/So next mornfng they came
to thank me; hugged my neck.
It was a bad ddy so when I
started to swedp the porch
there were their little tracks.
I just left them. A* I went
back in my nice warm room
I thought “Oh how rich I am.
I have the blessing of a happy
home.” ~
JL do want to thank you for
wonderful piece. It should
be copied again! I'm sure ther
are so many who haven’t read
it and it would be a blessing
for them.
1 do enjoy my home town
paper. For 50 years 1 have
gone back to Rockdale from
two to three time* a year,
meeting my brother, the late
Dr. H. K. Riddle in April and
October for many years. Now
he fr gone but I still go home.
DELL RIDDLE SEENE
Organizations,
Individuals: Aid
Stricken Infant |
Through fast work by more
than 20 Rockdale people work-
ing together, the life of a baby
born with a serious heart de-
fect may have been saved.
The baby girl, Mary Ann,
was born at Richards Hospital
IfYiday to Mr. and Mrs. Larry
Gonzales of Thomdale. The
need lor a heart specialist was
acute.
J One Austin hospital was con-
tacted by telephone hut would
not accept the baby because of
a money problem, although the
hoapital la known a a charity
hospital. Another hospital in
uatln agreed to take the baby
f a check fof
along with her.
Mrs. Byron Oook, nurse at
Richards Hospital, contacted
Mrs, W. H. Cooke, secretary of
the Milam County Crippled
Children's Aasociatoin, who
produced a check for $60. The
Salvation Army and the Rock-
dale Ministerial Association
produced the other $50.
Mrs. Cook said that in addi-
tion to the doctors at the local
hospital, the staff, Mrs. C. K.
Mesas and other nurses,.and
(ha three organizations involv-
ed, Phillips A UKfcdy Com-
pany furnished an ambulance.
"We appreciate all the help
we gdt,” sb»*estd.
' Treatment was started im-
mediately on the baby at A us-
A Different Kind of Sale Ton Can’t Afford to Miss
Some sales offer stripped down, botfom-of-the-llne cart at low
prlcga. But look what your Chavrolat dealer’s offering during March.
Five popular accessories and options on a handsome Impala V8
Sport Coupe, or If you prefer, a 2-Door or 4-Door V8 Bel Air Sedan.
And bast of all, you're getting the car you want at a price you can
afford in plenty of time for traveling this summer. Just check the
extra low price with your dealer. Hurry.
JLi.
You pick the car now and we add
this: 1
Every sale car comes with five hand-
some whitewall tires, four dresiy
wheel covers, bumper auards for
the front and rear, two handsome
wraparound lights for the front
fenders and even a pushbutton AM
redtor Vou’H eetiee, every -option
and accessory in the package is
there to make the oar you choose
more luxurious, more finished.
For even more enjoyment, specify
these:
Order power steering and power
brakes and your Chevrolet deafer
includes them at a special Bonanza
Safe package savings. If you've
never had power steering and
power brakes, now's your chance.
BONUS-BONUS-BONUS!
While the Sale is on, you can order
Chevrolet’s big 275-hp Turbo-Fire
V8 engine together with Powerglide
and save yourself a bundle. Both
the engine and the Powerglide
come specially prieedi
Truck Buyers—You save now, too!
Need a pickup? Look what your
dealer has in store for you. A hand-
some half-ton Fleetaide pickup
(Model CE10934) with 175-hp V8. a
pushbutton radio, chrome hubcaps
and custom appearance and com-
fort items all wrapped up in one
low-priced Bonanza packags.
Bonanza Sals Days Art flipping by fast.
Iirry Down ta Tour Dealer's low!
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Cooke, J. W. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 16, 1967, newspaper, March 16, 1967; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth864469/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.